Text snippets every creative should have on hand to save you time in your business

As a creative running a business, you already have 1001 things to do. What you don’t need to be spending your time doing is re-writing the same thing 100 times when it’s not necessary. But we often do.

We have to apply for something and find ourselves trying to come up with a bio that makes us sound amazing for the millionth time. Or we go on holiday and have to slap together an out-of-office message that magically directs people to the right places at the last minute. Or we get an Instagram DM from someone asking a question that we’ve answered before but never saved so we’re typing it out letter by letter because we’re a lovely person.

It’s tiring work but it has to be done, right?!

Yes, but it can be done differently. Easily. More efficiently. And I’m gonna show you how!

What are text snippets?

Text snippets, also known as boilerplate text or swipe files, are pre-written, reusable pieces of text that live in a library so you can copy and paste them whenever you need them, which saves time and effort in rewriting the same information over and over again.

For example, instead of rewriting your bio every time someone asks for it or you need it to fill in an…